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286 Written Quotes

I think it's wonderful that people in pickup trucks are buying two flats of dog food and a copy of 'Bastard.' I want my view of the world to be right up there next to gallon boxes of Tide. Votes: 4

Dorothy Allison

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Tide comes in, tide goes out, you can't explain it! Votes: 3

Bill O'Reilly

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Hoist up sail while gale doth last, Tide and wind stay no man's pleasure. Votes: 3

Robert Southwell

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If you want to walk the heavenly streets of gold, you gotta know the password, "Roll, Tide, Roll!" Votes: 3

Bear Bryant

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Tide goes in, tide goes out. Never a miscommunication. You can't explain that. You can't explain why the tide goes in. Votes: 3

Bill O'Reilly

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South African schoolchildren set a world record this week by creating the world's longest clothesline. Hey, what do South Africans wash their clothes with? Apar-Tide! Votes: 3

Dennis Miller

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An anthropologist at Tulane has just come back from a field trip to New Guinea with reports of a tribe so primitive that they have Tide but not new Tide with lemon-fresh Borax. Votes: 3

David Letterman

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Race makes things funny. A black guy driving in NASCAR: not funny. A black guy driving a car sponsored by Tide: not funny. A black guy driving a car sponsored by Aunt Jemima: hilarious. Votes: 3

Carlos Mencia

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Tide flowing is feared, for many a thing, Great danger to such as be sick, it doth bring; Sea ebb, by long ebbing, some respite doth give, And sendeth good comfort, to such as shall live. Votes: 3

Thomas Tusser

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I'm in Alabama. First thing I want to say is Roll Tide! I was at the Alabama/Georgia game last year sitting right in the middle of the Alabama section and saw that they rolled all over them! Votes: 3

Brian Jordan

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I really do think that our subconscious gets corrupted with fear, and fear is how news media - all media - makes us [watch] long enough to get to the Tide commercial. That's all it's about. Generating fear so that we can buy the proper laundry detergent. Votes: 3

Ann Patchett

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I want to be a race car passenger: just a guy who bugs the driver. Say man, can I turn on the radio? You should slow down. Why do we gotta keep going in circles? Can I put my feet out the window? Man, you really like Tide.. Votes: 3

Mitch Hedberg

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Love has a tide! Votes: 2

Helen Hunt Jackson

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Time and tide wait for no man. Votes: 2

Geoffrey Chaucer

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For you I know I'd even try to turn the tide. Votes: 2

Johnny Cash

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Families are struggling against a tide of junk information on junk food. Votes: 2

Diane Abbott

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Only when the tide goes out do you discover who's been swimming naked. Votes: 2

Warren Buffett

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Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn. Votes: 2

Harriet Beecher Stowe

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If we don't somehow stem the tide of childhood obesity, we're going to have a huge problem. Votes: 2

Lance Armstrong

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When we focus on our gratitude, the tide of disappointment goes out and the tide of love rushes in. Votes: 2

Kristin Armstrong

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All my life I've been rowing against the tide. What can I do? It seems I was born that way. Votes: 2

Jose Mujica

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Summer ends, and Autumn comes, and he who would have it otherwise would have high tide always and a full moon every night. Votes: 2

Hal Borland

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Life is a tide; float on it. Go down with it and go up with it, but be detached. Then it is not difficult. Votes: 2

Prem Rawat

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The work of many of the greatest men, inspired by duty, has been done amidst suffering and trial and difficulty. They have struggled against the tide, and reached the shore exhausted. Votes: 2

Samuel Smiles

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As in nature, all is ebb and tide, all is wave motion, so it seems that in all branches of industry, alternating currents - electric wave motion - will have the sway. Votes: 2

Nikola Tesla

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Seattle was built out on pilings over the sea, and at high tide the whole city seemed to come afloat like a ship lifting free from a mud berth and swaying in its chains. Votes: 2

Jonathan Raban

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If you spend a whole afternoon just eating popcorn and watching football, there's absolutely nothing wrong with that. But if that's all you do, you get swept along with the tide, without any idea of where you're going. Votes: 2

Roland Joffe

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The only way we can challenge Islamism is to engage with one another. We need to make it as abhorrent as racism has become today. Only then will we stem the tide of angry young Muslims who turn to hate. Votes: 2

Maajid Nawaz

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When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn. Votes: 2

Harriet Beecher Stowe

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One individual can begin a movement that turns the tide of history. Martin Luther King in the civil rights movement, Mohandas Ganhi in India, Nelson Mandela in South Africa are examples of people standing up with courage and non-violence to bring about needed changes. Votes: 2

Jack Canfield

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A whole lot of us believers, of all different religions, are ready to turn back the tide of madness by walking together, in both the dark and the light - in other words, through life - registering voters as we go, and keeping the faith. Votes: 2

Anne Lamott

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I have spent a great deal of my life being part of minorities. Some of the people I admire the most in the world have had the courage to defend, against wind and tide, minority viewpoints in those frightening times when any disagreement with universal conformity is identified as treason. Votes: 2

Antonio Munoz Molina

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Stood off and on during the night, determining not to come to anchor till morning, fearing to meet with shoals; continued our course in the morning; and as the island was found to be six or seven leagues distant, and the tide was against us, it was noon when we arrived there. Votes: 2

Christopher Columbus

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There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures. Votes: 2

William Shakespeare

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Put two ships in the open sea, without wind or tide, and, at last, they will come together. Throw two planets into space, and they will fall one on the other. Place two enemies in the midst of a crowd, and they will inevitably meet; it is a fatality, a question of time; that is all. Votes: 2

Jules Verne

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Gay marriage will be universally accepted in time. But if I may be so bold as to say to gays and lesbians, don't wait for that time to arrive. Just as my father and his generation did not 'wait' for their civil rights, nor should you. The toothpaste ain't going back in the tube. The tide has turned. Votes: 2

John Ridley

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The real power of the Buddha was that he had so much love. He saw people trapped in their notions of small separate self, feeling guilty or proud of that self, and he offered revolutionary teachings that resounded like a lion's roar, like a great rising tide, helping people to wake up and break free from the prison of ignorance. Votes: 2

Nhat Hanh

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The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, Votes: 0

William Butler Yeats

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The tide tarrieth no man. Votes: 0

John Heywood

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A rising tide lifts all boats Votes: 0

Proverb

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Pity swells the tide of love. Votes: 0

Edward Young

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Nae man can tether time or tide. Votes: 0

Robert Burns

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Nae man can tether time nor tide. Votes: 0

John Bunyan

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Yea, I shall return with the tide. Votes: 0

Kahlil Gibran

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The rising tide lifts all the boats. Votes: 0

John F. Kennedy

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Who knows what the tide could bring. Votes: 0

William Broyles, Jr.

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. . . in the full tide of successful experiment. Votes: 0

Thomas Jefferson

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The lotos bowed above the tide and dreamed. Votes: 0

Margaret Junkin Preston

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Always in absent lovers love's tide flows stronger. Votes: 0

Propertius

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Make haste! The tide of Fortune soon ebbs. Votes: 0

Silius Italicus

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Give wind and tide a chance to change. Votes: 0

Richard E. Byrd

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A rising tide (in the economy) lifts all boats. Votes: 0

John F. Kennedy

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A secret at home is like rocks under tide. Votes: 0

Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

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There is a tide in the affairs of men Votes: 0

William Shakespeare

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Today, the tide has turned, we are destroying them. Votes: 0

Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

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She's so ugly, the tide wouldn't take her out. Votes: 0

Martin Kaye

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Trains, like time and tide, stop for no one. Votes: 0

Jules Verne

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The lowest ebb is the turn of the tide. Votes: 0

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Time and tide and hookers wait for no man. Votes: 0

Rodney Dangerfield

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I swim against the tide because I like to annoy. Votes: 0

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

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Celebrate the success of others. High tide floats all ships. Votes: 0

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

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If you're lost, you might need to swim against the tide. Votes: 0

Holly Goldberg Sloan

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Welcome to Chicago. This town stinks like a whorehouse at low tide. Votes: 0

David Mamet

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And far and wide, in a scarlet tide, The poppy's bonfire spread. Votes: 0

Bayard Taylor

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Just keep plugging ahead with your idea because the tide turns quickly. Votes: 0

Tommy Dewey

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The tide of history only advances when people make themselves fully visible. Votes: 0

Anderson Cooper

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A single breaker may recede; but the tide is evidently coming in. Votes: 0

Thomas B. Macaulay

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A single breaker may recede; but the tide is evidently coming in. Votes: 0

Thomas Babington Macaulay

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Hold back the tide. Keep your kids innocent as long as possible. Votes: 0

Tony Danza

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It's the tide. It's the dismal tide. It's not the one thing. Votes: 0

Cormac McCarthy

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Time ... advances like the slowest tide, but retreats like the swiftest torrent. Votes: 0

Charles Caleb Colton

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It's the tide. It's the dismal tide. It's not the one thing." Votes: 0

Cormac McCarthy

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His heart danced upon her movement like a cork upon a tide. Votes: 0

James Joyce

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the heaviest anguish often precedes a return tide of joy and courage. Votes: 0

Harriet Beecher Stowe

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When I go to the beach, even the tide won't come in. Votes: 0

Phyllis Diller

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In high tide or in low tide, I'll be by your side Votes: 0

Bob Marley

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The idea behind Reaganomics is this: a rising tide lifts all yachts. Votes: 0

Walter F. Mondale

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After Barbarossa and Pearl Harbor, the war tide slowly turned against the Axis. Votes: 0

Alexander Dubcek

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As inclination changes, thus ebbs and flows the unstable tide of public judgment. Votes: 0

Friedrich Schiller

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Tony Fernandes is in that goldfish bowl and he's swimming against the tide. Votes: 0

Niall Quinn

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Iman is to believe, even when an overpowering tide of evil surrounds you. Votes: 0

Anwar al-Awlaki

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There is no cause to worry. The high tide of prosperity will continue. Votes: 0

Andrew Mellon

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Online education is like a rising tide, it's going to lift all boats, Votes: 0

Anant Agarwal

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As we say in the sewer, time and tide wait for no man. Votes: 0

Edward Norton

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Wealth is a tide which flows into one place by ebbing from another. Votes: 0

Austin O'Malley

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Only once in a lifetime love rushes in, changing you with the tide. Votes: 0

Mariah Carey

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You have to have passion, go with your gut, go against the tide Votes: 0

Donald Trump

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My soul grazes like a lamb on the beauty of an indrawn tide. Votes: 0

Pat Conroy

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There will be strange ebbs and flows in the tide of race feelings. Votes: 0

Amy Levy

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Anyone whose mission is keeping people apart is swimming against a very strong tide. Votes: 0

Russell Simmons

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Once a changemaker, always a changemaker but only a few swim against the tide. Votes: 0

Richard Branson

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The tide has changed. You have to be able to improvise in today's NFL. Votes: 0

Steve McNair

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I think there's a tide that tends to carry historians back to the past. Votes: 0

Ron Chernow

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I'm old, I'm young, I'm intelligent, I'm stupid. My tide goes in and out. Votes: 0

Warren Beatty

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Have the courage "to swim against the tide". Have the courage to be happy. Votes: 0

Pope Francis

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Every pleasure raises the tide of life; every pain lowers the tide of life. Votes: 0

Herbert Spencer

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She ate so many clams that her stomach rose and fell with the tide. Votes: 0

Louis Kronenberger

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May my tide never end unless I wash up on the shore of paradise! Votes: 0

Jen Selinsky

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The tide of my love Has risen so high let me flood over You. Votes: 0

Hafez

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But what would that be like feeling the tide rise out of the numbness inside Votes: 0

David Whyte

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Just because the tide is out, doesn't mean there is less water in the ocean. Votes: 0

Seth Godin

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Thereâs no point in fighting the tide. It ebbs. It flows. You ride it. Votes: 0

Karen Marie Moning

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I threw bitter tears at the ocean, but all that came back was the tide. Votes: 0

Sarah McLachlan

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Time's stern tide, with cold Oblivion's wave, Shall soon dissolve each fair, each fading charm. Votes: 0

Anna Seward

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The eternal tide flows hid in Living Bread. That with its Heavenly Life too be fed... Votes: 0

John of the Cross

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Patience is what you need in the Antarctic. Wait-Give wind and tide a chance to change. Votes: 0

Richard E. Byrd

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...precisely where the land touched water at high tide, where things came together but also separated. Votes: 0

Tim O'Brien

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Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30. Votes: 0

Robert Frost

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Genius is a good deal like the sea ... Nothing can restrain its tide or quicken it. Votes: 0

Inez Haynes Irwin

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Truth alone will endure, all the rest will be swept away before the tide of time. Votes: 0

Mahatma Gandhi

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A rising economic tide is bad for people who live off of the poverty of others. Votes: 0

Jonah Goldberg

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Never give up because you never know what the tide will bring in the next day. Votes: 0

Tom Hanks

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My hometown was so dull that one time the tide went out and never came back. Votes: 0

Fred Allen

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I'm Mozart with a focus on the tide Hiding the inconsistencies of man behind water and wine Votes: 0

Aesop Rock

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The emotions attached to them were like sand castles in the tide, slowly washing out to sea. Votes: 0

Nicholas Sparks

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When building sand castles on the beach, we can ignore the waves but should watch the tide. Votes: 0

Edsger Dijkstra

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Much sheer effort goes into avoiding the truth; left to itself, it sweeps in like the tide. Votes: 0

Fay Weldon

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Onward and sublime Will ever glide The silent stream of Time, That bears us on its tide. Votes: 0

Harvey Rice

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What fates impose, that men must needs abide; it boots not to resist both wind and tide. Votes: 0

William Shakespeare

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Now I'm beginning to live a little and feel less like a sick oyster at low tide. Votes: 0

Louisa May Alcott

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Life songs of ages, throbbing in my blood, have danced the rhythm of the tide and flood. Votes: 0

Michael Jackson

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The world is indeed only a small tide pool; disturb one part and the rest is threatened. Votes: 0

Gregory Bateson

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I say to myself, sometimes the tide is just out. But it always comes back in again. Votes: 0

Jewel

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Once the return tide starts, it will be impossible to stem it, and it will prove our undoing. Votes: 0

Moshe Sharett

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The dotted line my father's ashplant made On Sandymount Strand Is something else the tide won't wash away. Votes: 0

Seamus Heaney

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Spain is an overflow of sombreness . . . a strong and threatening tide of history meets you at the frontier. Votes: 0

Wyndham Lewis

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One who swims with the tide and not the other side will benefit from the opportunity that flows. Votes: 0

Stephen Richards

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I shall sleep, and move with the moving ships, Change as the winds change, veer in the tide. Votes: 0

Algernon Charles Swinburne

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When a just cause reaches its flood-tide...whatever stands in its way must fall before its overwhelming force. Votes: 0

Carrie Chapman Catt

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Delaware: a state that has three counties when the tide is out, and two when it is in. Votes: 0

John James Ingalls

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Writers cannot choose their own mood: with them it is not always hide-tide, nor --thank Heaven!--always Storm. Votes: 0

Charlotte Bronte

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The tide of history is turning women from beasts of burden and sexual playthings into full-fledged human beings. Votes: 0

Nicholas D. Kristof

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My heart is sand and Orion's cruel tide has washed it away from me, scattered it, lost it. Votes: 0

Kiersten White

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In matters of taste, flow like the tide. In matters of principle, stand like a rock. (Thomas Jefferson) Votes: 0

Beth Fine

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Learn to trust your instincts. Only something dead goes with the tide. Only something living can go against it. Votes: 0

Tony Parsons

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The tide of evolution carries everything before it, thoughts no less than bodies, and persons no less than nations. Votes: 0

George Santayana

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Fairies are becoming much more popular. I see fairyland as this big sea, and the tide is sometimes out. Votes: 0

Brian Froud

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Democrats are so spineless, so afraid to go against the tide... but dissension is the greatest form of patriotism. Votes: 0

Jesse Ventura

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Fate whirls on the bark, and the rough gale sweeps from the rising tide the lazy calm of thought. Votes: 0

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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If we can't alter the tide of events, at least we can be nearby with towels to mop up. Votes: 0

Peter David

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I was totally devastated for four years in the mid '60s when l tried to buck the tide. Votes: 0

Tommy Rettig

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There is no such thing as low-cost Christianity. Following Jesus means swimming against the tide, renouncing evil and selfishness Votes: 0

Pope Francis

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We meet again, at the turn of the tide. A great storm is coming, but the tide has turned. Votes: 0

J. R. R. Tolkien

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You cannot hold back a good laugh any more than you can the tide. Both are forces of nature. Votes: 0

William Rotsler

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The knowledge that she would never be loved in return acted upon her ideas as a tide acts upon cliffs. Votes: 0

Thornton Wilder

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Am I a weed, carried this way, that way, on a tide that comes twice a day without a meaning? Votes: 0

Virginia Woolf

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Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, the blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere the ceremony of innocence is drowned. Votes: 0

William Butler Yeats

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Is not he imprudent, who, seeing the tide making haste towards him apace, will sleep till the sea overwhelms him? Votes: 0

John Tillotson

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Truly there is a tide in the affairs of men; but there is no gulf-stream setting forever in one direction. Votes: 0

James Russell Lowell

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Living with generosity creates a swelling tide that raises all ships. Not just yours; not just the other person's; everyone's. Votes: 0

Bob Burg

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Have the courage to go against the tide of current values that do not conform to the path of Jesus. Votes: 0

Pope Francis

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The lowest ebb is the turn of the tide. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow We are such stuff as dreams are made of. Votes: 0

William Shakespeare

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I remain a simple man who has more questions than answers. Please join me as I seek to turn that tide. Votes: 0

Bill Duke

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Companions are we, enlivened by a mighty gallop quickly sliding a harsh straw basket of sea foam gathered astride the tide. Votes: 0

Bradley Chicho

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Time and tide will wait for no man, saith the adage. But all men have to wait for time and tide. Votes: 0

Charles Dickens

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From the beginning, I wanted to live my own life, and patiently I shored up that desire against wind and tide. Votes: 0

Ella Maillart

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The power of mass intention may ultimately be the force that shifts the tide toward repair and renewal of the planet. Votes: 0

Lynne McTaggart

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For the next inn he spurs amain, In haste alights, and skuds away, But time and tide for no man stay. Votes: 0

William Somervile

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The generations of men run on in the tide of time, but leave their destined lineaments permanent for ever and ever. Votes: 0

William Blake

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Still, as Christmas-tide comes round, They remember it again - Echo still the joyful sound "Peace on earth, good-will to men!" Votes: 0

Lewis Carroll

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I've always wanted to push myself and move with the tide. That's just how I am and it's worked for me. Votes: 0

Bryan Adams

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Grief came in waves, sometimes big, sometimes small, but even on the calmest days, the grief remained. The tide still came ashore. Votes: 0

Dianna Hardy

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The old adage of forgive and forget became a trudge through quicksand on a beach as high tide crashed onto the shore. Votes: 0

I.E. Castellano

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A mother's love is like an island, In life's ocean vast and wide, A peaceful, quiet shelter, From the restless, rising tide. Votes: 0

Helen Steiner Rice

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It sure is a rising tide, and we have a particularly nasty exemplar of it in the U.S., in Donald Trump. Votes: 0

Adam Hochschild

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He offered to stop the tide for me once. He offered to build me a palace at the bottom of the sea. Votes: 0

Rick Riordan

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Oh fair, oh sweet and holy as dew at morning tide, I gaze on thee, and yearnings, sad in my bosom hide. Votes: 0

Heinrich Heine

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The poet who walks by moonlight is conscious of a tide in his thought which is to be referred to lunar influence. Votes: 0

Henry David Thoreau

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If Joan of Arc could turn the tide of an entire war before her eighteenth birthday, you can get out of bed. Votes: 0

E. Jean Carroll

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This country to-day [is] the last stronghold of freedom, standing like a rock in a tide that is threatened to submerge the world. Votes: 0

Stanley Baldwin

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Money is like the tide: It rolls in and it rolls out. If you clutch it, you are not going to keep it. Votes: 0

Dolly Parton

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It is the Soviet Union that runs against the tide of human history by denying human freedom and human dignity to its citizens. Votes: 0

Ronald Reagan

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Then I walked away, and I did not look back. I had written my troubles on the sand. The tide was coming in. Votes: 0

Arthur Gordon Webster

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Just girt me for the onset with Eternity, When breath blew back, And on the other side I heard recede the disappointed tide! Votes: 0

Emily Dickinson

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To live on the land we must learn from the ocean, to be true as the tide and free as the wind swell. Votes: 0

John Denver

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When the tide goes out, you get to see who's swimming naked. PIMCO has had its bathing suit on for a long time Votes: 0

Bill Gross

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I ignored your aura but it grabbed me by the hand, like the moon pulled the tide, and the tide pulled the sand. Votes: 0

Talib Kweli

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What a strange scene if the surge of conversation could suddenly ebb like the tide, and show us the real state of people's minds. Votes: 0

Walter Scott

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Alaska and Montana are not in the south but they definitely form part of the crimson tide of red states where Republicans are dominant. Votes: 0

Juan Williams

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Love you not, then, to list and hear The crackling of the gorse-flower near, Pouring an orange-scented tide Of fragrance o'er the desert wide? Votes: 0

Alfred William Howitt

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Only conviction sells. Well, when we are insecure, we really don't have that 100 percent conviction. Once we have it, we can tide over everything. Votes: 0

Vidya Balan

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My day is done, and I am like a boat drawn on the beach, listening to the dance-music of the tide in the evening. Votes: 0

Rabindranath Tagore

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I have since written what no tide Shall ever wash away, what men Unborn shall read o'er ocean wide And find Ianthe's name agen. Votes: 0

Walter Savage Landor

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Shall we gather at the river, Where bright angel feet have trod; With its crystal tide for ever, Flowing by the throne of God? Votes: 0

Robert Lowry

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I have opened all the doors in my head. I have opened all the pores in my body. But only the tide rolls in. Votes: 0

Marilyn French

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Life is a journey. How we travel is really up to us. We can just flow with the tide or follow our own dreams. Votes: 0

Paulo Coelho

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The feelings we live through in love and in loneliness are simply, for us, what high tide and low tide are to the sea. Votes: 0

Khalil Gibran

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Stay in one place too long and the tide can overwhelm you. Ride the tide, surf the waves, stay on top of the changes. Votes: 0

Ron Kaufman

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Going against the tide has never been difficult for me. It wasn't even a conscious decision but the natural consequence of following my own instinct. Votes: 0

Lewis Gordon

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The sun was down, And all the west was paved with sullen fire. I cried, Behold! the barren beach of hell At ebb of tide. Votes: 0

Alexander Smith

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The rout of fascism, in which the Soviet Union played the decisive role, generated a mighty tide of socio-political changes which swept across the globe. Votes: 0

Leonid Brezhnev

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Well let there be sunlight, let there be rain Let the brokenhearted love again Sherry, we can run with our arms open before the tide. Votes: 0

Bruce Springsteen

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Detective, I don't know where the boyfriend is, really," I said. And it was true, considering tide, current, and the habits of marine scavengers. -Dexter Votes: 0

Jeff Lindsay

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Remember, Montag, we're the happiness boys. We stand against the small tide of those who want to make everyone unhappy with conflicting theory and thought. Votes: 0

Ray Bradbury

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Set in this stormy Northern sea, Queen of these restless fields of tide, England! what shall men say of thee, Before whose feet the worlds divide? Votes: 0

Oscar Wilde

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A rising tide raises all boats, but you need a boat to rise with the tide. What does he who does not have a boat do? Votes: 0

Rahul Gandhi

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Cuchulain stirred, Stared on the horses of the sea, and heard The cars of battle and his own name cried; And fought with the invulnerable tide. Votes: 0

William Butler Yeats

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Nae man can tether time or tide; The hour approachesTam maun ride; That hour, o'night's black arch the key-stane, That dreary hourTam mounts his beast in. Votes: 0

Robert Burns

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For whatsoever from one place doth fall, Is with the tide unto an other brought: For there is nothing lost, that may be found, if sought. Votes: 0

Edmund Spenser

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Editors of open anthologies actively seek submissions from all comers, established and unknown. They are willing to read whatever the tide washes up at their feet. Votes: 0

Lynn Abbey

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It's a combination of targeting higher paying jobs in these growth areas and fostering closer cooperation with higher education; a rising tide that lifts all boats. Votes: 0

John Hoeven

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I know what I have to do now, I've got to keep breathing because tomorrow the sun will rise. Who knows what the tide could bring? Votes: 0

Tom Hanks

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In most bull markets there comes a time when the public controls fluctuations and the efforts of the largest operators are insufficient to check the rising tide. Votes: 0

Charles Dow

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I think life's a bit of what you make it and a little smidgen of you being the jellyfish, and the tide's just gently helping you along. Votes: 0

Andrew Buchan

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You can judge a leader by the size of the problem he tackles... Other people can cope with the waves, it's his job to watch the tide. Votes: 0

Antony Jay

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Believe me, when I say; There are no two powers That command the soul. One is God The other is the tide. -Anon From the novel Abarat Votes: 0

Clive Barker

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You can judge a leader by the size of the problem he tackles. Other people can cope with the waves, it's his job to watch the tide. Votes: 0

Antony Jay

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Our people are ebbing away like a rapidly receding tide that will never return. The white man's God cannot love our people, or He would protect them. Votes: 0

Chief Seattle

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Maybe if the right person floats into your life, you have to jump in with both feet and try to make it work before the tide turns. Votes: 0

Claire Cook

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As he stared into the ocean, he must have tossed a lifetime of apologies into its silence. Maybe he thought the tide would wash his troubles away. Votes: 0

Diane Keaton

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[While] the primary responsibility, as we all acknowledge, (falls) with the family, ... Our homes, our families, our children's minds are being flooded by a tide of violence. Votes: 0

John McCain

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For years I have endeavored to calm an impetuous tide -- laboring to make my feelings take an orderly course -- it was striving against the stream. Votes: 0

Mary Wollstonecraft

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Slowly but surely, we're beginning to turn the tide on childhood obesity in America. Together, we are inspiring leaders from every sector to take ownership of this issue. Votes: 0

Michelle Obama

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I felt something inside me rush up from tailbone to fingertips and explode in a fierce, joyful tide: that berserk rage that had nowhere to go until now. Votes: 0

Heather Gladney

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When I came into the job, funding for the humanities at the federal level was being drastically cut. This was the high tide of the new Republican Congress. Votes: 0

Robert Hass

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He kept at true good humor's mark The social flow of pleasure's tide: He never made a brow look dark, Nor caused a tear, but when he died. Votes: 0

Thomas Love Peacock

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And since time sets its own tempo, like a heartbeat or an ebb tide, timepieces don't really keep time. They just keep up with it, if they're able. Votes: 0

Dava Sobel

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I love the Christmas-tide, and yet, I notice this, each year I live; I always like the gifts I get, But how I love the gifts I give! Votes: 0

Carolyn Wells

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There is a great need to rally the women of the Church to stand with and for the Brethren in stemming the tide of evil that surrounds us. Votes: 0

Howard W. Hunter

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I must go down to the sea again For the call of the running tide It's a wild call and a clear call that may not be denied. Votes: 0

John Masefield

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A man's opinion of danger varies at different times, in consequence of an irregular tide of animal spirits; and he is actuated by considerations which he dares not avow. Votes: 0

Tobias Smollett

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I don't see why a poem couldn't be spoken out a car window or written on the beach at low tide. In fact, I'm sure people are doing it. Votes: 0

James Arthur

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Divide the constant tide and random noisiness of energetic flow, with conscious recurring moments of empty mind, solitude, gratitude and deepslowbreathing. Of this, the natural law of self-preservation demands. Votes: 0

T.F. Hodge

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If everybody floated with the tide of talk, placidity would soon end in stagnation. It is the strong backward stroke which stirs the ripples, and gives animation and variety. Votes: 0

Agnes Repplier

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I saw thousands of pumpkins last nightcome floating in on the tide,bumping up against the rocks androlling up on the beaches;it must be Halloween in the sea Votes: 0

Richard Brautigan

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Storm the castle Stem the tide Rise above yourself Cry baby cry Cry cry to heaven If that doesn't do it for you Go ahead and cry like hell Votes: 0

Meat Loaf

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Rowing against the tide is hard and uncertain. To go with the tide and thus take advantage of the workings of the great natural force is safe and easy. Votes: 0

Ralph Waldo Trine

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PROMOTE A REVOLUTIONARY FLOOD AND TIDE IN ART. Promote living art, anti-art, promote NON ART REALITY to be fully grasped by all peoples, not only critics, dilettantes and professionals. Votes: 0

George Maciunas

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Writing every book is like a purge; at the end of it one is empty ... like a dry shell on the beach, waiting for the tide to come in again. Votes: 0

Daphne du Maurier

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I want our people to be like a molave tree, strong and resilient, standing on the hillsides, unafraid of the rising tide, lighting and the storm, confident of its strength. Votes: 0

Manuel L. Quezon

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All shadows of clouds the sun cannot hide like the moon cannot stop oceanic tide;but a hidden star can still be smiling at night's black spell on darkness, beguiling Votes: 0

Munia Khan

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Sometimes when we're incensed by the rancid tide of injustice, the impulse is to attack. We must avoid this. We have learned that violence as a means is always unsuccessful. Votes: 0

Russell Brand

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When you were a tadpole and I was a fish, in the PalÃ¦ozoic time And side by side in the sluggish tide, we sprawled in the ooze and slime. Votes: 0

Langdon Smith

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how he had loved Christine more than he had understood, that sometimes one forgot what it meant, really, to love, the way the tide of a marriage advances and retreats, . . Votes: 0

Kalotay

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Precept is instruction written in the sand; the tide flows over it and the record is gone; example is graven on the rock, and the lesson is not soon lost. Votes: 0

William Ellery Channing

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The tide of visitors will float slowly about the bottom of the valley as harmless scum collecting in hotel and saloon eddies, leaving the rocks and falls eloquent as ever. Votes: 0

John Muir

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Serene, I fold my hands and wait, Nor care for wind, nor tide, nor sea; I rave no more 'gainst time or fate, For lo! my own shall come to me. Votes: 0

John Burroughs

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I am convinced that America's great sea of goodwill can be, in fact, a rising tide, a tide that could lift every veteran and every family of our wounded and fallen. Votes: 0

Michael Mullen

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The Paphian Queen to Cnidos made repair Across the tide to see her image there: Then looking up and round the prospect wide, When did Praxiteles see me thus? she cried. Votes: 0

Plato

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The world is cluttered up with unfinished business in the form of projects that might have been successful, if only at the tide point someone's patience had turned to active impatience. Votes: 0

Robert Updegraff

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So we are being systematically trained to fear this false 'rising crime' tide. This is all part of a system to lock up more people, and impose more control and surveillance. Votes: 0

Jerry Brown

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We know of our own knowledge that we are human beings, and, as such, imperfect. But we are bathed by the communications industry in a ceaseless tide of inhuman, impossible perfection. Votes: 0

Margaret Halsey

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In the 1990s, we introduced Boston's community policing strategy. We reversed the tide of violent crime that threatened our city, and we established a national model for preventing and fighting crime. Votes: 0

Thomas Menino

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Frank heard a laugh behind him. He glanced back and couldn't believe what he saw. Nico di Angelo was actually smiling. "That's more like it," Nico said. "Let's turn this tide! Votes: 0

Rick Riordan

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Divide the constant tide and random noisiness of energetic flow, with conscious recurring moments of empty mind, solitude, gratitude and deep...slow...breathing. Of this, the natural law of self-preservation demands. Votes: 0

T.F. Hodge

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As I swim through the summer tide of vulgarity, I find that's what I'm looking for: Movies that at least feel affection for their characters. Raunchy is OK. Cruel is not. Votes: 0

Roger Ebert

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International exchanges are not a great tide to sweep away all differences, but they will slowly wear away at the obstacles to peace as surely as water wears away a hard stone. Votes: 0

George H. W. Bush

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Sweet Love of youth, forgive, if I forget thee, While the world's tide is bearing me along; Sterner desires and darker hopes beset me, Hopes which obscure, but cannot do thee wrong. Votes: 0

Emily Bronte

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We need to take our passion and effect real change at the local, state, and federal levels, to help elect progressive leaders, and to stem the tide of division, fear and scapegoating. Votes: 0

George Takei

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The disintegration of the culture starts with the artist. Im on a crusade to turn the tide in the arts, to restore dignity to the arts and, by extension, to the culture. Votes: 0

Thomas Kinkade

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Backward, flow backward, O tide of the years!I am so weary of toil and of tears,-Toil without recompense, tears all in vain!Take them, and give me my childhood again! Votes: 0

Elizabeth Chase Allen

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A rising tide doesn't raise people who don't have a boat. We have to build the boat for them. We have to give them the basic infrastructure to rise with the tide. Votes: 0

Rahul Gandhi

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There is no drop of water in the ocean, not even in the deepest parts of the abyss, that does not know and respond to the mysterious forces that create the tide. Votes: 0

Rachel Carson

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The disintegration of the culture starts with the artist. I'm on a crusade to turn the tide in the arts, to restore dignity to the arts and, by extension, to the culture. Votes: 0

Thomas Kinkade

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I think a lot of times God takes away your feelings, so you have to depend on faith. And faith is kind of like a tide. It rolls in and rolls out. Votes: 0

Rick Warren

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And the very act of living is a tide; at first it seems to make no difference at all, and then one day you look down and see how much pain has eroded Votes: 0

Jodi Picoult

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Certain corpuscles, denominated Christmas Books, with the ostensible intention of swelling the tide of exhilaration, or other expansive emotions, incident upon the exodus of the old and the inauguration of the New Year. Votes: 0

William Makepeace Thackeray

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Ktaadnis an Indian word signifying highest land,... very few, even among backwoodsmen and hunters, have ever climbed it, andit will be a long time before the tide of fashionable travel sets that way. Votes: 0

Henry David Thoreau

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The tide rises, the tide falls, The twilight darkens, the curlew calls; The little waves, with their soft, white hands, Efface the footprints in the sands, And the tide rises, the tide falls. Votes: 0

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Maybe someone will know I didn't weave crowns to draw blood; that I faught against mockery; that I did fill the high tide of my soul with truth. I repaid vileness with doves. Votes: 0

Pablo Neruda

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The morning breaks; the steeds in their stalls Stamp and neigh, as the hostler calls; The day returns, but nevermore Returns the traveler to the shore, And the tide rises, the tide falls. Votes: 0

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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It takes strong, sound leadership, that correspondingly rare commodity, which is afflicted with neither an excess of pity nor callousness, to stand against the insipid tide of superficiality that is sweeping the world. Votes: 0

Tim Macartney-Snape

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This is a most unfortunate affair, and will probably be much talked of. But we must stem the tide of idle chatter, and pour into our wounded bosoms the soothing balm of vengeance. Votes: 0

Seth Grahame Smith

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This is a most unfortunate affair, and will probably be much talked of. But we must stem the tide of idle chatter, and pour into our wounded bosoms the soothing balm of vengeance. Votes: 0

Seth Grahame-Smith

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And when he came to, he was flat on his back on the beach in the freezing sand, and it was raining out of a low sky, and the tide was way out. Votes: 0

David Foster Wallace

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When Christ at Cana's feast by pow'r divine, Inspir'd cold water, with the warmth of wine, See! cry'd they while, in red'ning tide, it gush'd, The bashful stream hath seen its God and blush'd. Votes: 0

Aaron Hill

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We're living longer, we social network alone with our screens, and our depth of feeling gets shallower. Soon it'll be nothing but a tide pool, then a thimble of water, then a micro drop. Votes: 0

Marisha Pessl

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If the tide of defamation and abuse shall turn, and my administration come to be praised, future Vice-Presidents who may succeed to the Presidency may feel some slight encouragement to pursue an independent course. Votes: 0

John Tyler

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The growing tide of anti-Semitism shocks the conscious of everyone who values freedom, and the ugly, hateful acts particularly stain the character of democracies where liberty and religious freedom are supposed to be respected. Votes: 0

Mike Ferguson

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In securing the future of the planet, we secure happiness for ourselves. One of the aims of the Greens is to turn around the tide of pessimism amongst the young people of the world. Votes: 0

Bob Brown

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And so, all the night-tide, I lay down the side, of my darling, my darling, my life and my bride, in the sepulchre there by the sea, in her tomb by the surrounding sea." Votes: 0

Edgar Allan Poe

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Sometimes the tide is just out. But it always comes back in again. In times of severe distress, we tend to get tunnel vision and think this feeling will last forever. It will not. Votes: 0

Jewel

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I have two moods. One is Roy, rollicking Roy, the wild ride of a mood. And Pam, sediment Pam, who stands on the shore and sobs... Sometimes the tide is in, sometimes it's out. Votes: 0

Carrie Fisher

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In high seas or in low seas, I'm gonna be your friend... I'm gonna be your friend. In high tide or in low tide, I'll be by your side... I'll be by your side. Votes: 0

Bob Marley

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I hope the people on Wall Street will pay attention to the people on Main Street. If they do, they will see there is a rising tide of confidence in the future of America. Votes: 0

Ronald Reagan

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what storyteller is adequate to her story? The story carries us along, bottles on the tide, each with our secret mesage and the fervent hope that it does not turn out to be blank. Votes: 0

Erica Jong

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You need to figure out what you want, Josh. If that means you need to swim against the tide to get it, at least youre aiming for something that could make you very happy. Votes: 0

Jay Asher

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I think -- tide turning -- see, as I remember -- I was raised in the desert, but tides kind of -- it's easy to see a tide turn -- did I say those words? Votes: 0

George W. Bush

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If I lose my mind again and I tell you that I'm thinking of getting married, I want you to put me in a straight jacket and take me to the beach at high tide. Votes: 0

Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood

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If I lose my mind again and I tell you that I'm thinking of getting married, I want you to put me in a straight jacket and take me to the beach at high tide. Votes: 0

Rush Limbaugh

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I saw the long line of the vacant shore, The sea-weed and the shells upon the sand, And the brown rocks left bare on every hand, As if the ebbing tide would flow no more. Votes: 0

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Among all the many kinds of first love, that which begins in childish companionship is the strongest and most enduring: when passion comes to unite its force to long affection, love is at its spring-tide. Votes: 0

George Eliot

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Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; wealth and fashion side by side; Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide. Votes: 0

John Greenleaf Whittier

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I know what my heart is like Since your love died: It is like a hollow ledge Holding a little pool Left there by the tide, A little tepid pool, Drying inward from the edge. Votes: 0

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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...never try to follow another's path for that is his way, not yours. When that path is found, you have nothing to do but fold your arms and the tide will carry you to freedom. Votes: 0

Swami Vivekananda

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The most amazing thing to me about the sea is the tide. A harbour like St. Ives is totally transformed in a very short space of time by the arrival or departure of the sea. Votes: 0

John Dyer

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One day I wrote her name upon the strand, But came the waves and washÃ¨d it away: Again I wrote it with a second hand, But came the tide, and made my pains his prey.

Edmund Spenser

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Jesus built a ship to sing a song to, it sails the rivers and it sails the tide. Some of my friends don't know who they belong to, some can't get a single thing to work inside.

Gram Parsons

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At ebb tide I wrote a line upon the sand, and gave it all my heart and all my soul. At flood tide I returned to read what I had inscribed and found my ignorance upon the shore.

Khalil Gibran

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Mrs. Gautier, I hear there are places online where you can sell children for a good price. Nick is still young enough, he should fetch enough to tide you over for a bit." " Rosa

Sherrilyn Kenyon

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It struck me then how much the past - not just the past but history and family - was like the ocean tide. It was always the same ocean, but the waves made it fresh and new each time.

Aimee Friedman

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When the sands are all dry, he is gay as a lark, And will talk in contemptuous tones of the Shark: But, when the tide rises and sharks are around, His voice has a timid and tremulous sound.

Lewis Carroll

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Play is not for every hour of the day, or for any hour taken at random. There is a tide in the affairs of children. Civilization is cruel in sending them to bed at the most stimulating time of dusk.

Alice Meynell

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Do we weep for the heroes who died for us, Who living were true and tried for us, And dying sleep side by side for us; The martyr band That hallowed our land With the blood they shed in a tide for us?

Abram Joseph Ryan

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In the unceasing ebb and flow of justice and oppression we must all dig channels as best we may, that at the propitious moment somewhat of the swelling tide may be conducted to the barren places of life.

Jane Addams

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Don't you long for something different to happen, something so exciting and new it carries you along with it like a great tide, something that lets your life blaze and burn so the whole world can see it?

Juliet Marillier

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I love the night. I love to feel the tide of darkness rising, slowly and slowly washing, turning over and over, lifting, floating, all that lies strewn upon the dark beach, all that lies hid in rocky hollows.

Katherine Mansfield

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Just at the turn of the tide, nature held its breath - no bird sang, everything seemed to be waiting and waiting. And then, sure enough, as if someone had flicked a switch, everything started in motion again.

M.C. Beaton

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Family violence is an entrenched epidemic that we've lived with since time began, so we've got a long way to go. But I do believe the tide is turned. It's no longer a subject that only occurs behind closed doors

Rosie Batty

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All nature works, and then rests; works and rests. I caught its rhythm and worked and rested with it. When I felt that inertia stealing over me, I rested; and while resting my power recuperated - the tide rose in me.

Elizabeth Towne

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In business, as in politics, it is never easy to go against the beliefs and attitudes held by the majority. The businessman who moves counter to the tide of prevailing opinion must expect to be obstructed, derided and damned.

J. Paul Getty

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One can no more keep the mind from returning to an idea than the sea from returning to a shore. For a sailor, this is called the tide; in the case of the guilty it is called remorse. God stirs up the soul as well as the ocean.

Victor Hugo

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I have to understand the nature of change. And I cannot just work with stone or the more permanent materials. I need to work with leaves and ice and snow and mud and clay and water and the rising tide and the wind and all these.

Andy Goldsworthy

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Be careful what rubbish you toss in the tide. On outgoing billows it drifts from your sight, But back on the incoming waves it may ride And land at your threshold again before night. Be careful what rubbish you toss in the tide...

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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To us who remain behind is left this day of memories. Every year--in the full tide of spring, at the height of the symphony of flowers and love and life--there comes a pause, and through the silence we hear the lonely pipe of death.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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What the world needs today is a definite, spiritual mobilization of the nations who believe in God against this tide of Red agnosticism. ...And in rejecting an atheistic other world, I am confident that the Almighty God will be with us.

Herbert Hoover

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We are a conspiracy of hope and we are pressing back against the strong tide of oppression which for centuries has been the legacy of those of us who are labelled with mental illness. We are refusing to reduce human beings to illnesses.

Patricia Deegan

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Go with the pain, let it take you. Open your palms and your body to the pain. It comes in waves like the tide and you must be open as a vessel lying on the beach, letting it fill you up and then, retreating, leaving you empty and clear...

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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But Greece and her foundations are Built below the tide of war, Based on the crystalline sea Of thought and its eternity; Her citizens, imperial spirits, Rule the present from the past, On all this world of men inherits Their seal is set.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

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There was a time when I believed I was the redeemed one, the boy borne safely home on the ebb of whatever freak tide carried Peter and Jamie away. Not any more. In ways too dark and crucial to be called metaphorical, I never left that wood.

Tana French

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Life of Ages, richly poured, Love of God unspent and free, Flowing in the Prophet's word And the People's liberty! Never was to chosen race That unstinted tide confined; Thine is every time and place, Fountain sweet of heart and mind!

Samuel Johnson

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Sittin' here resting my bones, this loneliness won't leave me alone. Two thousand miles I roam, just to make this dock my home. I'm just gon' sit at the dock of the bay, watching the tide roll away. Sittin' on the dock of the bay, wastin' time.

Otis Redding

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Morning tide makes a great companion when you donât want to be around people. It soothes and comforts and doesn't ask for anything. But the sun does. The higher it gets, the more I am reminded that nothing stops time. There is no escaping it.

Anna Banks

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Life has a way of testing our anchors and tempting us to drift. Nevertheless, if our anchors are correctly placed in the rock of our Redeemer, they will holdâno matter the force of the wind, the strength of the tide, or the height of the waves.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

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Hillary Clinton has shown no indication whatsoever of stemming the tide of Islamic immigration, or stopping our mollycoddling, and pandering to Islam. These things are direct threats. Not just to culture, but to the lives of gay people in America.

Milo Yiannopoulos

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As the tide washed in, the Dutch Tulip Man faced the Ocean: "Conjoiner rejoinder poisoner concealer revelator. Look at it, rising up and rising down, taking everything with it." "What's that?" Anna asked. "Water," the Dutchman said. "Well, and time.

John Green

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The beachcomber goes looking for trouble, everything he finds is a sign of trouble. The writer is the same; without trouble he has nothing to work with, so he picks over the tide line, over the bits and pieces of people's lives with grim fascination.

Tim Winton

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It is not only the proclamation of the whole truth that is needed today; it is the release of the spiritual reality which the truth expresses, and that can only be realized as we allow ourselves to be caught into the mighty on-flowing tide of the Spirit.

Watchman Nee

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You should never even ask if a campaign is winnable, because the question is not answerable. No-one can predict the course of the future. Time and time again I have seen completely unforeseeable shifts in the tide of events that result in campaign victory.

Elizabeth May

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But now, we are becoming suspicious of the very things we have long celebrated - free markets, trade, immigration, and technological change. And all this is happening when the tide is going our way. Just as the world is opening up, America is closing down.

Fareed Zakaria

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That tide of insecurity would come in and out over the years, sometimes stranding me for a while but occasionally lifting me just beyond what I thought I could acomplish. Either way, it would wash over the same bedrock certainty: ultimately, I know myself.

Sonia Sotomayor

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Nature knows that people are a tide that swells and in time will ebb, and all their works dissolve ... As for us: We must uncenter our minds from ourselves. We must unhumanize our views a little and become confident as the rock and ocean that we are made from.

Robinson Jeffers

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O lovely river of Yvette! O darling river! like a bride, Some dimpled, bashful, fair Lisette Thou goest to wed the Orge's tide. O lovely river Yvette! O darling stream! on balanced wings The wood-birds sang the chansonnette That here a wandering poet sings.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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He who is conversant with the supernal powers will not worship these inferior deities of the wind, waves, tide, and sunshine. Butwe would not disparage the importance of such calculations as we have described. They are truths in physics because they are true in ethics.

Henry David Thoreau

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One feels so despairing on some levels about what's going on in our culture, in regards to things like gender inequality. But there is progress. There is enhanced empathy and respect for others, we are fighting the tide, even though it seems like a tug of war sometimes.

Uma Thurman

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To turn the tide of materialism in the Christian community, we desperately need bold models of kingdom-centered living. Despite our need to do it in a way that doesn't glorify people, we must hear each other's stories about giving or else our people will not learn to give.

Randy Alcorn

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Would the honest patriot, in the full tide of successful experiment, abandon a government which has so far kept us free and firm on the theoretic and visionary fear that this Government, the world's best hope, may by possibility want energy to preserve itself? I trust not.

Thomas Jefferson

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So possible is it for us to roll ourselves up in wickedness, till we grow invulnerable by conscience; and that sentinel, once dozed, sleeps fast, not to be awakened while the tide of pleasure continues to flow or till something dark and dreadful brings us to ourselves again.

Daniel Defoe

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... the modern drama, operating through the double channel of dramatist and interpreter, affecting as it does both mind and heart,is the strongest force in developing social discontent, swelling the powerful tide of unrest that sweeps onward and over the dam of ignorance, prejudice, and superstition.

Emma Goldman

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Notwithstanding the trouble, notwithstanding the argument, notwithstanding the increasingly heavy hand of government, notwithstanding the spirit of arrogance we so often display, notwithstanding the growing tide of pornography and permissiveness, notwithstanding occasional corruption in public office and betrayal of sacred trust-I marvel at the miracle of America...

Gordon B. Hinckley

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Turn of the tide (32 quotes)

The lowest ebb is the turn of the tide. Votes: 3 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Turn of the tide (32 quotes)

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